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…I await the arrival of our UPS man today…perhaps he will bring me a big box with a return address of “Tapestry of Grace.” The new units were shipped out yesterday and the day before, so I might get mine today.
Then I get to plan my shopping trip to Staples where I will happily consider what color binders to buy, what kind of page protectors to use, and which selection of Sharpies I need. Oh, and I need tabs…definitely binder tabs.
Ahhh…just thinking about it makes me happy…I love school supplies. I think they might have contributed to my becoming a teacher!
This reminds me of a movie quote…”Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
This week it was brought to my attention — by a confessed lurker — that a lurker, by definition, cannot leave a comment. I apologize for imploring you to do something that is against your nature.
Please go on lurking. I’ll pretend you’re not there. 
I finally have a shirt that says…
It came in the mail today, Tracy. THANK YOU!!!
On Tuesday, Jonathan started waving. And he also started using baby signs…”more,” and “all done.” He did all three for the first time within a half hour. I have since decided that he’s headed for Harvard.
It’s been a while since my last post here, so I am going to attempt to update you on our lives over the last few weeks….bear with me…
**We’ve been doing swimming lessons for the last two weeks here at our neighborhood pool…which is the main reason why I’ve been so lazy about blogging. We’re out the door at 8:45 every morning, ready to swim. Jonathan and Andrew have been showing signs of being sick of this schedule!!! This morning was our last day. Here’s a picture of Cameron dog-paddling. Ben was pretty anxious for the first two days of lessons, but he came around by day #3 and by the time yesterday rolled around (lesson #7), he was jumping up and down waiting for his turn. I am not ready to turn them loose in the pool by themselves yet, but they are both a lot more confident in the water than they were at the beginning of the summer.
**My mom found out last week that she is in the earliest stage of breast cancer. She is scheduled to have surgery next Thursday. Please keep her and my dad in your prayers.
**We took the boys to see “Cars” on Tuesday night at our local cheapskate theatre. I LOVE that place! $4 for adults, $2 for kids, and snacks are cheap too! Here’s a pic of the guys pretending to drive outside the theatre!
It was funny to watch such a racing-related movie in Kannapolis, NC, home of the Earnhardts. The audience was pretty enthused. Thanks to the Pinckneys, Teiglands and Mr. Queen for coming along for the ride!
OK, crying baby…will continue later…
Visit Derek Webb’s myspace page to view his new video for his song “A New Law.” You have to scroll down a little to see it.
The song is one that I love…it speaks to our tendency as Christians to create new “laws” for ourselves instead of immersing ourselves in the Spirit, educating ourselves, and interacting with those around us.
Here are the lyrics:
A New Law
(vs. 1)don’t teach me about politics and government
just tell me who to vote for
don’t teach me about truth and beauty
just label my music
don’t teach me how to live like a free man
just give me a new law
(pre-chorus)i don’t wanna know if the answers aren’t easy
so just bring it down from the mountain to me
(chorus)i want a new law
i want a new law
gimme that new law
(vs. 2)don’t teach me about moderation and liberty
i prefer a shot of grape juice
don’t teach me about loving my enemies
don’t teach me how to listen to the Spirit
just give me a new law
(pre-chorus/chorus)
(bridge)what’s the use in trading a law you can never keep
for one you can that cannot get you anything
do not be afraid
do not be afraid
do not be afraid
The bridge is my favorite part. Christ means that we do not have to keep the Law anymore…He has perfected our obedience to it. Why then do we invent rules for ourselves, thinking that we will be justified by them? Better to rejoice in His completed work and be unafraid…
Hebrews chapter 9 says:
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Praise the Lord!
PS To be honest I found the video a tad boring….I don’t want to say that too loudly since I love Derek’s stuff so much…shhhhh…
Here’s an interesting article about men and women, boys and girls, and reading. It made me think a few things…
1. I’m glad we’re homeschooling…we’ll have our own single-sex school.
2. It doesn’t bother me anymore that Cameron loves to draw with black.
3. This is totally my opinion, but I think that the reticence on the schools’ part of accepting this research is due to the fact that it presents a problem with the secular thinking that dominates the educational landscape. If schools start accepting that boys and girls really are that different, it presents a problem with neutral gender roles (a lack of gender roles). Then we start talking about boys and girls growing up into men and women, and maybe women, due to their different biological makeup, are suited to different jobs than men…and maybe their roles in marriage should be different…see where I’m going here?
Thoughts?
Something tells me a fraternity somewhere should be credited with this discovery…
Click here.
http://www.sharperiron.org/2006/06/12/my-plea-to-worship-leaders/
I received this via e-mail today. Any thoughts?
‘God rides forth conquering in the chariot of His Gospel. . . He conquers the pride of the heart, and makes the will which stood out as a Fort Royal against Him, to yield and stoop to His grace; He makes the stony heart bleed. Oh! it is a mighty call! Why then do some men seem to speak of a moral persuasion? That God in the conversion of a sinner only morally persuades and no more? If God in conversion should only morally persuade and no more, then He does not put forth so much power in saving men as the Devil does in destroying them.’ –Thomas Watson
